Today, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Historic City News reporters will be watching as city commissioners and staff wrangle with issues that will likely go on for eight or nine hours tonight.

Historic City News received the following statement from St. Johns County Fire Rescue Chief, Carl Shank, after completion of the department’s internal review and investigation into the events surrounding the initial response to the Belleza condominium complex on July 13, 2015.

Historic City News has been invited to participate in an “on the record” press call at 3:00 p.m. today, Thursday, August 6th, to discuss the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Taxpayers in the City of St Augustine have been some of the harshest critics of what they see as mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse surrounding more than $4-million dollars in public spending; much of which was paid to employees, contractors, and those insiders who profited from “sole-source” contracts, private meetings held outside of Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law, and political cronies of the pseudo-elite carpetbaggers who conspired to line their own pockets and enrich their own lifestyle from what should have been a joyous celebration of more than four centuries of Spanish influence by the families whose ancestors persevered in order that we could hold a 450th Commemoration.